Does anyone know of any remaining users of the Type1 fonts?

[Vasile Gaburici]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 22:01 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le mercredi 03 septembre 2008 à 15:50 -0400, Jim Gettys a écrit :
>> > I'm specifically talking about the type-1 fonts in the distribution; I
>> > wasn't planning to pull the renderer itself.
>> >
>> > Specifically the package: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
>>
>> I don't think anything really depends on this one.
>>
>> Actually, except for console users, I don't think anything really
>> depends on xorg fonts anymore (except the builtin ones). They've been
>> dead wood too long – font projects moved elsewere.
>>
>
> Exactly.  I suspect it is pretty safe to nuke it so it isn't installed
> on Fedora by default, leaving the chance of picking them up by accident.

+1 for removing xorg-x11-fonts-Type1

>
> There are some other packages that are similar, I suspect; e.g. the URW
> fonts.

These are the standard PostScript 35 fonts, albeit with URW names. I'm
not sure that certain things won't break without them, e.g. old PDFs
that don't embed base fonts. Adobe 7.x+ comes with multiple master
fonts to emulate these, but I don't think evince/poppler have such
capabilities. Needs some testing.

> It's also possible to nuke the bitmap fonts, though for legacy reasons,
> font aliases should be installed to fail-over to one of the modern
> outline fonts.

-0.5 Not really remove. You'd have add them as prereqs for various
apps that need them (x)emacs and fontforge come to mind. (x)emacs
works best with these. You can use other fonts, but you'll have to use
a larger point size font and you'll be able to fit fewer text lines on
a given screen area. I think people will complain that "emacs fonts
look fuzzy / are too big" etc. If you can find a reasonable
alternative let me know.

>                           - Jim
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